Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.

Nice cartoon...couple of points. It’s NOT prophetic. It simply shows that we’ve been fighting the same basic battle for many, many years now. Not much has changed. Second, it’s funny watching John Q Public brag about development of business (with smoke stacks in the background) and bragging about how many cars we drive despite our relative resources. Those points are now used as evidence of capitalism’s failure by the enviro crowd, and it is taught to all our kids. Last, capitalism IS an ism.

As someone who grew up in Southern California in the 1950’s I know believe that this cartoon is absolutely authentic. As an aside, my beloved mother-in-law graduated from Harding College in the early 1930’s.

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posted on 09/03/2009 8:19:46 AM PDT
by Irish Queen
(This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through ...)

A very fine story. 1948 was my kindergarten year and we had just bought our first TV and growing up in Newark New Jersey suburbs made us the first test market I remember seeing this cartoon movie theater. Another film that I remember being played while in school was by Frank Sinatra the Hoboken Hero!

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